Throw These Words ‘Under the Bus’
Lake Superior State University has just released their annual “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness.” They include “post 9/11,” “it is what it is,” “surge,” “organic,” “sweet,” and “give back.”
I’d like to add some others to the list:
“Love her or hate her” (only seems to be used about conservative women)
“gah” (used in place of “God” and totally annoying)
All abbreviations for short words — mb (maybe), 2 (to), bb (baby), u (you), WTF (a bunch of short words)
“1,000,000 Strong For/Against” (if you’re on Facebook, you know what I’m talking about)
“In it to win it” (let’s also bannish the woman who uttered this phrase)
Do you have any words you would like to banish from the lexicon?
(Oh, let’s also banish “lexicon.”)
January 1st, 2008 at 9:36 pm
It would please me greatly if we eliminated “at the end of the day.”
January 1st, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Good one. It also brings to mind another — “I’m sure we can all agree…”
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:33 am
Um, we shouldn’t ban any words? I thought conservatives were into less govt- more freedom, and all that jazz. But if we’re playing the game, let’s ban saying “and all that jazz” at the end of a series.
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:12 am
“irregardless”
It is a double negative!
January 7th, 2008 at 8:56 am
Some more:
1) “Yeah right???” (said after almost every statement by valleygirl wannabes)
2) “Twittering” (said only by twits, IMHO)
A whole bunch more that are annoying me too much just thinking about them.